The 5-dollar gold piece weighs 8.0645 grammes 900 fine, and therefore contains 7.25805 grammes of fine gold. The silver dollar (like the French 5-franc piece) weighs 25 grammes 900 fine, and thus contains 22.5 grammes of fine silver. There are 50, 20, and 10-centavo silver coins, and both nickel and copper fractional money. Professedly the standard of value is gold. The money in circulation is chiefly paper. The paper dollar, being convertible at 44 gold dollar, is worth 1s. 9d. The Quintal Since January 1, 1887, the use of the French metric system is compulsory. Diplomatic Representatives. 1. OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC IN GREAT BRITAIN. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. — Florencio L. Dominguez. First Secretary.-V. J. Dominguez; Second Secretary.-L. H. Dominguez. Consul-General in London.-S. G. Uriburu. There are Consular representatives at Belfast, Cardiff, Dublin, Dundee, Edinburgh, Falmouth, Glasgow (C.G.), Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Newport, Nottingham, Southampton, Swansea. 2. OF GREAT BRITAIN IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Envoy and Minister.-W. H. D. Haggard, appointed 1902. Secretary.-F. D. Harford. Consul.-A. C. Ross, C. B. There is a Consul at Rosario. Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning the Argentine Republic. 1. OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS. Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions. Imp. 4. London. Argentine-Chilian Boundary: Report presented to the British Arbitration Tribunal on behalf of the Argentine Government. 5 vols. London, 1900. Boletin mensual de estadistica municipal de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Boletin de Agricultura y Ganaderia. Buenos Aires. Segundo Censo de la Republica Argentiua, Mayo 10 de 1895. 2 vols. Buenos Aires, 1898. Datos trimestrales del comercio exterior de la República Argentina. Buenos Aires. Estadística general del comercio exterior de la República Argentina. Annual. Buenos Aires. Foreign Office Reports. Annual Series. London. Handbook of the Argentine Republic, Bulletin issued by the Bureau of the American Republics. Washington, 1903. Higiene Publica, Anales de. Monthly. Buenos Aires. Informe presentado á la Oficina de Estadística de Buenos Aires. Annual. Buenos Aires. Informes del Delegado Argentino. 2 vols. Paris, 1890. Informe sobre el estado de la educacion comun, durante el Año de 1891. By Dr. Benjamin Zorrilla. Buenos Aires, 1893. Informe sobre deuda pública, bancos, &c., por P. Agote. Año vii. Buenos Aires, 1896. Instituto Geografico Argentino, Boletin del. Buenos Aires. L'Agriculture l'Elevage, l'Industrie, et le Commerce dans la Province de Buenos Aires in 1895. Buenos Aires, 1897. Ligeros apuntes sobre el clima de la República Argentina, por el Director de la oficina meteorológica Gualterio G. Davis. Buenos Aires, 1889. Map of the Argentine Republic. With a short description of the country. Published by the Argentine Government Information Office. Museo de La Plata. Anales and Revista. Annual Reports (Memorias) presented to Congress by the various Ministers of State. Buenos Aires. Registro estadístico de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Fol. Buenos Aires, 1898. Anales. 2. NON-OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS. Akers (C. E.), Argentine, 1890. Patagonian and Chilian Sketches. 8. London, 1893. Amérique du Sud. Benauidez, The Argentine Estancia. Trois ans chez les Argentins. 4. Paris, Buenos Aires, 1903. Campbell (W. O.), Through Patagonia. London, 1901. Carbajal (Lino D.), La Patagonia. 4 vols. Turin. 1899. [In progress.] Cisneros (C. B.) and Garcia (R. E.), Geografia Comercial de la America del Sur. Lima, 1897. Child (Theodore), The Spanish American Republics. London, 1891. Crawford (A.), Across the Pampas and the Andes. London, 1884. Danvers (Ernesto), Electrical Enterprise in Argentina. Buenos Aires, 1900. Diareaux (Emile), Buenos Aires, la Pampa et la Patagonie. Paris, 1878. Dodds (J.), Records of the Scottish Settlers on the River Plate. Buenos Aires, 1897. Dominguez (L. L.), Historia Argentina. 4th edit. Buenos Aires, 1870. Head (F. B.), Rough Notes taken during some rapid journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes. 3rd. ed. London, 1828. Holdich (Sir T. H.), The Countries of the King's Award. London, 1904. In Stanford's Com Keane (A. H.) and Markham (C. R.), Central and South America. pendium of Geography and Travel. New issue. London, 1901. Klet (C. L.), Estudios sobre Produccion, &c., de la Republica Argentina. 2 vols. Buenos Aires, 1900. König (A.), A traves de la Republica Argentina. Santiago, 1890. Martinez (Alberto B.), El Presupuesto Nacional, Buenos Aires, 1890.-Manua de Viajero. Buenos Aires, 1900. Märtens (P.), Süd-Amerika unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Argentiniens. Berlin, 1899. London, 1826. 8. Paris and Buenos Aires, 1890. A Condensed Translation, by W. Miers (John). Travels in Chile and La Plata. 2 vols. Mulhall (M. G. and E. T.), Handbook of the River Plate. London, 1893. Page (T. L.), La Plata the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay. New edition. New York, 1873. Parish (Sir Woodbine), Buenos Aires and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata. 2nd ed. London, 1852. Paz Soldan (Mariano Felipe), Geografia Argentina. Buenos Aires, 1885. Prichard (H. H.), Through the Heart of Patagonia. London, 1962. Quevedo (S. A. L.), Various Ethnological and Topographical Works. 1898 and 1899. Buenos Aires, Report of the Council of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders. Appendix for 1898. London, 1899. Review of the River Plate. Weekly. Buenos Aires. Rosen (E. von), Archæological Researches on the Frontier of Argentina and Bolivia, 1901-02. Stockholm, 1904. Rumbold (Sir H.), The Great Silver River. London, 1888. Buenos Aires, 1892. Sarmiento (Domingo Faustino), Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants. Translated by Mrs. H. Mann. 8. London, 1868. Turner (T. A.), Argentina and the Argentines. London, 1892. Vaulx (Comte de), Voyage en Patagonie. Paris, 1900. Vincent (F.), Round and About South America. New York, 1890. Wallace (Prof.), Argentine Shows and Livestock. Edinburgh, 1904. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. (OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE MONARCHIE.) Franz Josef I. (Ferencz József 1), Emperor of Austria, and King of Hungary; born August 18, 1830; the son of Archduke Franz Karl, second son of the late Emperor Franz I. of Austria, and of Archduchess Sophie, Princess of Bavaria. Proclaimed Emperor of Austria after the abdication of his uncle, Ferdinand I. (in Hungary, V.), and the renunciation of the crown by his father, December 2, 1848; crowned King of Hungary, and took the oath on the Hungarian Constitution, June 8, 1867. Married April 24, 1854, to the late Empress Elisabeth (Erzsébet), born December 24, 1837, the daughter of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria; died at Geneva, September 10, 1898. Heir-Presumptive.-Archduke Franz (Ferencz) Ferdinand, son of the late Archduke Karl Ludwig and Princess Annunciata, daughter of the late King Ferdinando II. of Naples; married July 1, 1900, to the Countess Sophia Chotek (now Princess of Hohenberg), having duly renounced the right of his future children to succeed to the thrones of Austria and Hungary. Children of the Emperor-King. I. Archduchess Gisela (Gizella), born July 12, 1856; married April 20, 1873, to Prince Leopold, second son of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, born February 9, 1846. married II. Archduchess Maria Valeria, born April 22, 1868; July 31, 1890, to Franz Salvator, Archduke of Austria-Tuscany. Grandchild of the Emperor-King. Archduchess Elisabeth (Erzsébet), born September 2, 1883, only child of the late Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince, and Princess Stéphanie, second daughter of King Leopold II. of Belgium; married January 23, 1902, to Prince Otto zu Windischgrätz. Brother of the Emperor-King. Archduke Ludwig (Lajos) Victor, Feldzeugmeister in the imperial and royal army; born May 15, 1842. Children of the Emperor-King's late Brother, the Archduke Karl Ludwig. I. Franz (Ferencz) Ferdinand, born December 18, 1863 (see above). II. Otto, born April 21, 1865; married October 2, 1886, to Princess Maria Josepha, born May 31, 1867, the daughter of King Georg of Saxony; offspring, Karl, born August 17, 1887; Maximilian, born April 13, 1895. III. Ferdinand Karl Ludwig, born December 27, 1868. IV. Maria Annunciata, born 1 The Hungarian forms of names are inserted in parentheses. July 31, 1876; installed abbess at Prague, October 19, 1895. V. Elisabeth, born July 7, 1878; married April 20, 1903, to Prince Alois of Liechtenstein. The imperial and royal family descends from Rudolf von Habsburg, a German count, born 1218, who was elected Emperor of Germany in 1273. The male line died out in 1740 with Emperor Karl VI., whose only daughter, Maria Theresa, gave her hand (1736) to Duke Franz of Lorraine and Tuscany, afterwards Kaiser Franz I. of Germany, of the House of Lorraine, who thereby became the founder of the new line of Habsburg-Lorraine. Maria Theresa was succeeded, in 1780, by her son Joseph II., who, dying in 1790, left the crown to his brother Leopold II., at whose death, in 1792, his son Franz I. ascended the throne, who reigned till 1835, and, having been married four times, left a large family, the members of which and their descendants form the present Imperial House. Franz was the first sovereign who assumed the title of Emperor, or 'Kaiser,' of Austria, after having been compelled by Napoleon to renounce the imperial crown of Germany, for more than five centuries in the Habsburg family. The assumption of the title of Emperor of Austria took place on August 1, 1804. Franz I. was succeeded by his son, the Emperor Ferdinand I. (V. as King of Hungary), on whose abdication, Dec. 2, 1848, the crown fell to his nephew, the present EmperorKing Franz Josef I. The present Emperor-King has a civil list of 22, 600,000 crowns: one moiety of this sum, 9,300,000 crowns, is paid to him as Emperor of Austria, out of the revenues of Austria, and the other moiety as King of Hungary, out of the revenues of Hungary. The following is a list (for the first centuries not complete) of the sovereigns of Austria (Dukes and Archdukes of Austria, from 1526 also Kings of Hungary and Bohemia, from 1804 Emperors of Austria), from the date of the feoffment of Dukes Albert I. and his brother Rudolf II. with the Duchy of Austria by his father, Emperor of Germany, Rudolf of Habsburg, founder of the dynasty :: House of Habsburg. All except those marked with an asterisk likewise filled the throne of the *Franz Josef I. Holy Roman Empire. Political Relations between Austria and Hungary. Austria and Hungary or, as in international relations they are officially called, the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, consists of two States, the Austrian Empire and the Hungarian Kingdom. The relation between the two States in its present form was fully regulated by the so-called Compromise (Ausgleich, Kiegyezés) of 1867. According to this agreement the two States are perfectly independent of each other, possessing each its own constitution, its legislative power and its executive departments for most branches of State affairs. There is, however, a close political connection between them through the identity of the Sovereign and the community of certain departments of State affairs. The common head of the monarchy is the Emperor (Kaiser) of Austria and Apostolic King (Apostoli Király) of Hungary. The crown is hereditary in the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty, passing by right of primogeniture and lineal succession to males and (on failure of males) to females (the so-called "successio mixta"). The monarch must be a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He is styled His Imperial and Apostolic Royal Majesty,' being Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, &c., and Apostolic King of Hungary.' Affairs common to the two States are:-(1) Foreign affairs; (2) military and naval affairs, and (3) finance relating to common affairs. The two States administer these matters by common institutions and common ministries. The conduct of all diplomatic affairs and the diplomatic representation of the two States abroad are common to both. The greater part of the armed force and the entire navy are common, but the Austrian Landwehr and Austrian Levy-in-mass and the Hungarian Honvédség and the Hungarian Levy-in-mass, although standing in organic connection with the common army, are special institutions administered by a particular ministry of each State. The financial business is in so far common, as the costs and expenses are common, which are applied for the common institutions and their conduct; but each State provides separately for the assessment, collection, and transmission of its contribution. Legislative power relating to common affairs is exercised by the Parliaments of both States, but the voting of money to be applied to common purposes, and the control of the official action of the common ministries, belong to the so-called Delegations. Of these there are two, each consisting of 60 members, of whom 20 are chosen from each of the Upper Houses (the Austrian Herrenhaus and the Hungarian Förendiház), and |